BEIJING, April 25 –Professor Jean-Pierre Serre, Emeritus Professor at the
Collège de France in Paris, received an honorary doctor’s degree in the
celebration of the 90th Anniversary of Tsinghua University
Mathematical Disciplines and the 106th Anniversary of Tsinghua
University.

Tsinghua University President Yong QIU held
cordial discussions with Professor Serre prior to the ceremony, highly rating
the outstanding intellectual achievements Professor Serre has made which set a
standard of excellence and merit the spirit of Tsinghua University.

Professor Serre is one of the great
mathematicians of our time. He has made significant contributions to the
progress of mathematics for over half a century, and continues to do so.
Professor Serre has been playing a leading role in the development of topology,
algebraic geometry and number theory, with his achievements being of
extraordinary breadth, depth and influence.

Professor Serre develops revolutionary
algebraic methods for studying topology and has ushered in a golden age for
algebraic geometry.His magnificent research
and insight of number theory extends the mathematical ideas introduced by Abel
and sets the stage for many recent celebrated breakthroughs including the proof
by Wiles of Fermat´s Last Theorem.

Professor Serre received the Fields Medal in 1954 (the
youngest recipient ever), the Wolf Prize in
2000 and the Abel Prize in 2003.
Both Fields Medal and Abel Prize are
highest honors for mathematicians. Professor Serre has been elected to national
academies of France, United States and the Netherlands and he has been awarded
honorary degrees from many world-class universities like Oxford University,
Cambridge University and Harvard University.

During his visit at Tsinghua University,
Professor Serre delivered four cutting-edge lectures attracting mathematicians
all over the world as well as faculty and students on the campus.